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The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries G.A.J. Rogers

The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries By G.A.J. Rogers

The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by G.A.J. Rogers


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Essays on philosophy and intellectual history, focusing in particular on John Locke.

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The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton by G.A.J. Rogers

Essays on philosophy and intellectual history, focusing in particular on John Locke. This collection of essays by well-known international scholars working in the history of philosophy and intellectual history honours the distinguished career of John Yolton, their subjects reflecting many of his central interests,particularly John Locke. Topics include Locke and his idea of thinking matter; the recovery of Locke's library; his understanding of the Law of Nature and its implications; Berkeley's philosophy and his conception of common sense; the connection between reason and revelation in some early eighteenth-century writers; and the post-modernist crude misrepresentation of the Enlightenment. G.A.J. ROGERS is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University; SYLVANA TOMASELLIis a former research fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Contributors: SYLVANA TOMASELLI, FRANCOIS DUCHESNEAU, RICHARD H. POPKIN, G.A.J. ROGERS, PETER LASLETT, MICHAEL AYRES, GENVIEVE BRYKMAN, M.A. STEWART, ARTHUR WAINWRIGHT, JOHN STEPHENS, JOHN P. WRIGHT, SHADIA B. DRURY

Table of Contents

Locke and the physical consideration of the mind, Francois Duchesneau; scepticism with regard to reason in the 17th and 18th centuries, Richard H. Popkin; Locke and the sceptical challenge, G.A.J. Rogers; the recovery of Locke's library, Peter Laslett; natures and laws from Descartes to Hume, Michael Ayres; common sensibles and common sense in Locke and Berkeley, Genevieve Brykman; abstraction and representation, M.A. Stewart; reason, revelation and experience in the hymns of Addison and Watts, Arthur Wainwright; Edmund Law and his circle at Cambridge - some philosophical activity of the 1730s, John Stephens; Hume, Descartes and the materiality of the soul, John P. Wright; Foucault's critique of the Enlightenment, Shadia B. Drury; appendix - the curriculum vitae of John W. Yolton and a list of his major writings.

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GOR008558868
9781878822642
1878822640
The Philosophical Canon in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton by G.A.J. Rogers
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
19961201
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